Studio: international art (44.1908)

Studio-Talk

LANCASTRIAN POTTERY PLAQUE DESIGNED AND PAINTED BY
G. M. FORSYTH

decoration by Professor Gerald
Moira, who on other walls dis-
played beautiful water-colour draw-
ings for stained-glass windows and
for decorations in the lunettes of a
P. and O. steamer. The admirable
designs in black chalk for mural
decoration and glass by Miss Emily
Ford, and the beautiful coloured
drawing for stained glass, Apollo
and the Muses, by G. W. Rhead,
attracted much attention. The
leaded glass for a handsome three-
light memorial window, designed
by Henry Holiday and courteously
lent by the owner, made a brilliant
central feature in the Lower
Hall. Large panels of coloured
tile mosaic, supplemented by
coloured enamel on metal in relief,
all testified to Mr. Henry Holiday’s
versatility and skill in decorative
work.

containing so much artistic merit
should have lacked sufficient public
support. _

In an altogether different direc-
tion the Brothers Martin have re-
established the beauties of stone-
ware, which for form and colour,
for its fine hard surface and highly
vitreous glaze, for appropriateness
of decoration, and, moreover, for
numberless accidental effects of a
most delightful kind, claims the
highest praise.

Mural decoration and stained
glass formed a very prominent
section of the exhibition. The
valuable original cartoon for a
large fresco in the House of Lords,
The Triumph of Justice, by Ford
Madox Brown (lent by Harold
Rathbone), filled the main staircase
wall, flanked right and left by
cartoons for stained glass by Walter
Crane, R.W.S., Sir E. Burne-Jones,
Robert Anning Bell, and C. W.
Hall, together with other impor-
tant designs in pastel for mural